وسْئَلْهُمْ عَنِ الْقَرْیَةِ الَّتِى کَانَتْ حَاضِرَةَ الْبَحْرِ إِذْ یَعْدُونَ فِى السَّبْتِ إِذْ تَأْتِیِهمْ حِیتَانُهُمْ یَوْمَ سَبْتِهِمْ شُرَّعاً وَیَوْمَ لاَ یَسْبِتُونَ لاَ تَأْتِیِهمْ کَذَلِکَ نَبْلُوهُم بِمَا کَانُوا یَفْسُقُونَ (163)

163- AND ASK THEM ABOUT THE TOWN WHICH WAS AT THE SEA- SHORE, WHEN THEY WERE BREAKING THE SABBATH- WHEN THEIR FISH CAME TO THEM ON THEIR SABBATH DAY FLOATING ON THE WATER, BUT IN THE DAYS OTHER THAN THEIR SABBATH THEY CAME NOT TO THEM. SO DID WE TRY THEM ON WHAT THEY DEBAUCHED.

وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أُمَّةٌ مِّنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْماً اللهُ مُهْلِکُهُمْ أَوْ مَعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَاباً شَدِیداً قَالُوا مَعْذِرَةً إِلى رَبِّکُمْ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ یَتَّقُونَ (164)

164- AND WHEN A GROUP OF THEM SAID: `WHY DO YOU ADMONISH A PEOPLE WHOM ALLAH IS ABOUT TO DESTROY, OR STERNLY PUNISH THEM?' THEY SAID; AS AN EXCUSE TO YOUR LORD. (TO GET RID OF BLAMES) AND PERHAPS THEY AVOID EVIL.

فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُکِّرُوا بِهِ أَنجَیْنَا الَّذِین یَنْهَونَ عَنِ السُّوءِ وَأَخَذْنَا الَّذِینَ ظَلَمُوا بِعَذابِ بَئِیس بِمَا کَانُوا یَفْسُقُونَ (165)

165- WHEN THEY FORGOT THE WARNING THAT THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN, WE RESCUED THOSE WHO FORBADE EVIL, AND WE SEIZED THOSE WHO OPPRESSED, WITH A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT FOR WHAT THEY DEBAUCHED.

فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا عَنْ مَّا نُهُوا عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ کُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَْسِئینَ (166)

166- SO WHEN THEY ARROGANTLY PROCEEDED ALONG WITH WHAT THEY HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN, WE SAID TO THEM: `BE YOU APES, REJECTED.''